> >7 minutes for deleting a
> > file in the project root.
>
> As for deleting a file in the project root being slow, I think that is
> unrelated to Subversion. If you're using an NTFS filesystem, then be
> aware that deletes are horrendously slow on NTFS.

Well, however slow deletes on NTFS might be, they are not
7-minutes-for-a-single-file slow...

It's interesting to time several operations on the same project tree
with 30 000 files: